international media immediately after it emerged now the opposition's claim is that government forces shelled to peace in villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that allegedly prove. when they tied people on the sharks to be stabbed and brainstem in an orgy of violence and to support that the opposition posted a number of videos allegedly from this village show when dead bodies but however these videos contain bodies that by all appearances to degrade or to have died yesterday raising many questions on the credibility and to the truth of their positions claims and just where these bodies came from on the other hand the syrian government has a completely different take on what happened. in syria they say they got a call from a local resident asking for help after militants took over the village the army has

been stationed in this area they've been reporting beforehand that they are preparing for an anti-terrorist operation so after that call they immediately launched this operation and we are receiving right now official. reports from official sources in hama that after the army went in they discovered nine bodies of civilians and the clashes that occurred after that two officers have been killed and five others have been easy just so as you can see both sides. think there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and without credible investigation right now is to go to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. well despite the uncertainties surrounding the home are killing some western and arab powers have made conclusions with some leaders immediately blaming president for the atrocity and once again calling for action against his regime that's not. to. you new york

what's been the international reaction to the reports. well the international reaction so far has been pretty much blaming the syrian government for the most recent massacre in hama there was a meeting that is still continuing right now at the general assembly at the united nations where people representatives of countries took to the podium giving their take on the crisis in syria the secretary general of the u.n. bonn ki-moon condemned the latest massacre and said that president assad has lost all his legitimacy in addition to that we have heard comments coming from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and the british prime minister david cameron who are meeting in a separate meeting and instead instable in turkey. hillary clinton saying that syria will not retain or have any peace until president assad goes prime minister cameron are also said that he is calling for the international community to

increase its pressure on syria and now western powers have been for months pushing for regime change in syria and as of late pushing and campaigning for security council sanctions on syria now those sanctions is something that china and russia are opposed to russia the russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin also addressed the general assembly saying that the international community needs to coordinate its efforts behind the six point peace plan that was put forth by international envoy kofi annan that peace plan was endorsed and supported by the security council ambassador churkin also said that any policy of unilateral pressure on syria hasn't worked economic sanctions are only aggravating the humanitarian crisis there and now is the time for the security council and the international community to look at the circumstance of joe. actively and not just

take sides and with respect to the most recent massacre in hama ambassador churkin said that it requires a careful and honorable investigation before coming to any conclusions or pointing fingers let's take a listen to what he had to say. experience a proponent of this is going to nation in connection with the crime that was in the suburbs of homely just clear the. very careful and reliable investigation and it is equally clear that those who are behind these evil deeds. through into syria into the. room to undermine the efforts aimed at a political settlement of the crisis. will marina that un general assembly meeting is still taking place in new york what can one expect to come out of this session. well in the coming hours international envoy kofi annan will be meeting with members of the security council where they will be discussing what steps can be

taken to resolve the crisis in syria mr anon when he addressed the general assembly said that the international community must find common ground and act as one he said that individual actions or any kind of interventions will not resolve the crisis that the international community must act together but must act very quickly because according to the joint special envoy the violence is escalating there the country is growing even more polarized even more radicalized so clearly either there has to be a reason for reaffirming of support of his peace plan or there has to be alternatives considered alternatives work every member of the security council will be onboard and we know that there is a division when it comes to any kind of sanctions or military interventions because those moves russia and china will not support. thanks very much indeed for that live update from new york parties point. well political analyst christopher store

he's been covering events in the region says there are strong indications the hummer massacre was carried out by terrorists in the terrorists you know called off the peace plan that was a de facto joke they had never kept they have never stuck to it there are terrorists at work very clearly and very clearly they're sponsored from abroad openly saudi arabia. qatar. turkey is involved people you know fighters come over the border from jordan from lebanon from iraq from turkey and that in fact the situation very much and there are kinds of media lies the most recent where we hear that eighty people were killed in a massacre well the same resistance group you know publishing this said a little later that there were just fifty and that it was twenty four this was the german really and in fact the government says it was nice but the killing was done

by the terrorists and i think there is believe bill and the other things are lies the usual lies we hear since a year. or more on the situation in syria on our website including the theory that the timing of the latest reported massacre in hama was no coincidence we explore how similar presidents have already been used in the past to justify military intervention in foreign countries bypassing the un log on to r.t. dot com. russia's kremlin is backing iran's try for a peaceful atomic program shorts came during central asia as regional security summit in beijing spearheaded by russia and china at the event president vladimir putin met with the leaders of afghanistan and iran two nations which often divide opinion in the west and has this report. china for him it's just the place to be because it is probably one of the few places in the world where he is not being threatened by sanctions where he can all feel relaxed and

smiling we saw on the cameras as he was walking inside the building how children relaxed he was definitely putting on him have a lot to talk about because russia plays a very important role in mediating the conflict between iran and the west moreover the timing of this particular meeting in beijing is very important as well because in the middle of june we're expecting a five plus one group of negotiators to meet in moscow to discuss the iranian issue certainly this happens i mean the time when washington does not rule out military action against tehran and constantly keeps slapping iran with different sort of economic and trade sanctions both russia and china support to support the civil nuclear program in iran at the same time they would not support any military nuclear program in this country now as for the meeting with it's also seen as very crucial because russia is now playing a very important role in afghanistan providing one of its military bases in the town it will be on up for the nato troops to deliver it's not military cargo to

afghanistan to help with draw all of the u.s. troops from the country by the end of twenty fourteen it's evident to many that the war on terror in afghanistan is not working out as it was planned civilians are being killed by terrorists drug trafficking in the still there so russia certainly wants to play a very important role in bringing this country to peace. we're always interested in your thoughts on the stories we're covering here on r.t. and on our web sites we're asking what you think are the reasons behind russia stepping up its military ties with china and some of the results on the screen at the moment so far the majority of respondents think it's to keep washington's asia pacific ambitions in check seventy percent say moscow wants to ensure regional security others are split between two options as you can see there to keep tabs on china's growing military might and gain more leverage in the un security council join the discussion the vote at r.t. dot com we could hear from. it was the birthplace of the egyptian revolution but tanya square's reputation is now being tainted by

a sinister trend activists say female protesters are being increasingly subjected to violence and sexual abuse alarming incidents that some say reflects a much bigger social and cultural problem. reports on the plight of egyptian women who fear that instead of freedoms promised by mubarak's fall they may be facing an even darker future. when this egyptian woman was dragged into terrier to be exposed and abused by the military men it served as a stark reminder that barrack might have been toppled but egypt's arab spring has many hurdles to overcome if it's to blossom into a democracy for a conservative culture watching a woman exposed in that way open the floodgates to shocking tales of female protesters subjected to violence and sexual harassment not just at the hands of those they opposed but their fellow revolutionaries as well still we're having a small profit on with some men and the streets is that they are still

a little bit again as to having women with them side to side in the political women played a vital role in egypt's revolution but what the future now holds for women and their rights is far from certain in the life of women actually water i'd like my do to leave home i do less in the same way i live my i do this with no harassment sexual harassment is rampant in egypt forcing women to wear conservative clothes and even avoid areas where they might come into close contact with men because of the problems is that your harassment that a lot of women any complain about here in cairo the metric system has some areas for women only many of the women say that's to avoid some of the men's wondering how. egypt's now facing the prospect of an islamic government that's raising fears over what it could mean for women's rights i met with as around just one of just

eleven female m.p.'s and a member of the muslim brotherhood she's controversially condoning the practice of female circumcision which was banned under the former regime or. who agreed the rules of the constitution first. the rules for women and for america and we will do what. is right for the gyptian people. these clues to revoke hard won women's rights could risk egypt's new modern democracy becoming a terrifying throwback to the past ages of female oppression now we are as if beginning from. zero point zero which is very frustrating because usually after of russians you feel that you're going to gain the political revolution in egypt maybe in full flow but the cultural one it seems could be just getting started surfing. the timeline of the turmoil in egypt can be

found on our website there's plenty more for you there including a blaze on a nuclear submarine in miami may make it into the record books of the most costly fire caused by household appliance find out more at our two dot com. plus scientists say that stone age artists may have been using animation techniques in their caves or in creating the impression of moving animals. the nicaraguan government is planning to build a thirty billion dollars into oceanic route that set to challenge the panama canal business correspondent daniel bushell brings us the details. united states opened

the panama canal in one nine hundred fourteen and it's taken the lawyers share of trade between the atlantic and pacific ever since but now russia plans to build a deeper void to rival through the sun one river it may bring nicaragua but threatens the hugely profitable existing route and improved waterway it would attract many firms that currently go through panama also traders increasingly use joint ships that are too big for the existing canal the center of world trade shifting to the asia pacific region and states like china have long wanted an alternative path not dominated by the u.s. but russia may not get the contract the project director says china japan brazil south korea and venezuela are also eager to fund the thirty billion dollar plan will have more of business just off the twenty past and it will end the debt crisis has meant big business for italy's maffia which has been described as the country's number one lender by an italian anti corruption group struggling businesses a boring money from criminal organizations to keep afloat as banks restrict lending

join the e.u. crisis economics expert alberta min guardian says the government's policies are partly to blame for the nephew. beginning of march. on the economy is particularly strong now because mafia has cash and you go plenty of small businesses particularly in the south and in the center of the country without running short of cash and have some kind of relationship with mafia because they work for a statement years to buy protection. from mafia they made to the mafia as an investor so to say capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money to get out or make him sick to do these is very troublesome and it's a very important that should be can our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are traveling to tell the economy in particular that we need to reduce taxation there's still a bit more money available to tell the base this is more legitimate money coming

out of castner's and not coming out of mafia and criminal going to its asians. later today max kaiser will be looking at the u.k.'s efforts to snare economic fortunes amid the financial crisis. police launch war on economic crime the metropolitan police in the u.k. are going to go after them in the last twelve months the police have seized over fifty million pounds in cash from the small time economic fraudsters well they got it backwards federal. a couple of centuries ago eluding at the top begets living at the bottom if you want to get rid of learning at the bottom they were looting at the top which means they were the camera and they were to bar and get rid of mervyn king until that happens expect more looting at the bottom and more on a zombie apocalypse. as

the european financial rollercoaster continues to bring down economies and governments some smaller political parties are getting their moment in the spotlight the pirate party in germany has seen a surge in popularity as people abandon more traditional outfits you've got this kind of assess his political ambitions. it may seem like a home we convention but don't work these outfits for you this is the annual conference of the poor reporter of germany three years ago it had just about one thousand members there almost thirty thousand and with deputies in the three months including in berlin paris or very jagging there we in to mean stream politics it's become more difficult. in germany that part of parties have to take it and you already see the people reacting the party success story started in action from last september when the surprising one newly named percentage of votes now according to

opinion polls the party would capture up to thirteen percent of votes across germany if the only. into the national parliament today pirates newcomer within the party system they produce a policy making people didn't expect from a traditional party and used in political communication and the kind of a platform for the transport of political protests. look we're all about participation and transparency all members to take part in discussions online and it doesn't seem to matter that so for me submitted to me. in schools why were until conservations or that their favorite meeting spot is a bar in they don't have a stance on foreign affairs or the financial crisis and have already made a few mistakes with one senior member comparing their success to the first years of

hitler's nazis though he quickly apologized we don't take ourselves so seriously we're not us. as other politicians are we we know that we're human and we make mistakes and he accepted make mistakes. therefore we have no problems with saying ok sorry i was wrong germany's national parliamentary election is planned for next year and the pirates are ready for battle just like most young organisations the pirate party of germany is going through its own case of growing pains but its popularity and flyers are on the rise and it could be time for mainstream politicians to watch out for the new kids on the block. r.t. germany twenty two minutes past the hour now some other news making headlines across the world and. prosecutors of ordered the arrest of a far right member of parliament following his attack on two female leftwing deputies during a live t.v.

debate yes cussing this through a glass of water in the face of an m.p. after she brought up his alleged involvement in a mugging case five years ago the television debate came ahead of the country's parliamentary election in ten days time. hundreds of workers have rotted at the chinese factory foxconn which produces apple devices with dozens of protesters detained employees clashed with security guards following reports of an attempted theft and manufacture of previously came under fire for forcing staff to work excessively long hours for most salaries. the pretrial hearing for the probably many cases taking place at fort meade twenty four year old manning is accused of aiding the enemy by publishing hundreds of classified u.s. cables on the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the defense plans to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by the disclosures. the civilian death toll continues to rise in afghanistan with thousands of lives lost in the last forty eight hours local officials say eight

hundred civilians died at a wedding ceremony when nato forces launched an air raid on a village in the country's east alliance commanders deny the report claiming they only hit taliban fighters on the same day three suicide bombers targeted a market outside a sprawling nato base in kandahar killing twenty two people in this sort of general scale of porter says nato is activity in afghanistan is only adding to the civilian death toll. you know this whole problem of u.s. and nato military operations both airstrikes and nate raids is a situation that has caused enormous opposition from the population particularly in the southern afghanistan. region of the country are to increasingly oppose the presence of u.s. and nato forces and if you look at the charge of the casualty figures for civilians

and you compare them with the level of foreign troops operating in afghanistan you can see that there is a direct correlation between the two and because of the. reason for the correlation is obvious that the more u.s. . neutral forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in. the exact opposite is really the reality. is you know your population. time now to hook up with daniel the reason our business desk daniel china moves to stop the slowdown of this economy we're hearing here for the first time in four years beijing has cut interest rates he hopes the new six point three one percent rate will make people and businesses spend rove and save and kick start growth g.d.p. set to rise just seven percent in the second quarter of this year that's low by chinese standards if the rest of the world could only dream about those and also it

is fear public or wrist if it doesn't deliver continued double digit rises in addition the ruling party delayed the implementation of tough capital rules amid concerns they may hurt lending similar problems for russia which is trying to kickstart growth by selling off its biggest companies joins us it's like sperm bank and all major rules enough to go on to the hummer from september the government has just announced jacob no from morgan stanley russia says investor interest is high. these are some of the great companies of russia that are being privatized spare bank and obviously the two largest banks rosneft is the largest oil company and you have a number of excellent infrastructure assets including. airport largest airport in the country particular when combined with the nuke of a twenty five percent of russian railways a number of poor. and so i think that any serious investor will want to take a good hard look at these assets whether they're russian or foreign so will be

staggered over goes also from next year it's ramping up corp with americas exxon mobile and the new economic schools have told us all that makes it a very strong investment. i think it's a very good sign that the government today decided that the. should be private i think it's it's a step in that i did actually there is no reason why i should be a government owned company it works in the competitive sector it's not an infrastructure company needs not a defense company should be privatized but i would still be the big deal because with your there storming your bones and we've not seen it is happening yet it's a very good sign that it's been on that. over in the u.s. now federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says it stands ready to protect the financial system should the european crisis escalate euro debt was continuing wall street is slightly higher on the news here in europe david cameron's refused to help in the euro bailout after a meeting with chancellor merkel britain's prime minister says because it's not a member of the single currency britain shouldn't be obliged to assist russian

markets now they closed higher joint state development bank v.v. says it's ready to support russian equity markets by buying shares moscow's been one of the world's worst performing this year v.b. hopes to make a big profit is this as for core suggest the markets will rebound and also reduce volatility is one of its aims times check out some exchange rates the euro's now lower against the dollar of the being higher for much of the day as for the ruble again to the main currencies in moscow trading again for another day this week investors say that. that's increasingly loyd clear as protests against brussels will stare into grows deeper and is currently over one hundred dollars a barrel of the buying from bank of america said it will collapse if greece leaves the eurozone doom and gloom for course suggests a worsening global recession will follow the so-called greek exit gregg's it is known crude prices are currently being boosted by science the us will palm picture cash into the economy to boost growth roll signals it will take a hard line in nuclear talks also rising the oil price today more stories on the

website daniel thanks very much indeed more than a little later today here in r.t. and we've got more from the world of finance in just a few minutes from now on capital account from washington that will be straight after reminder of our top stories. stay with us live here on r.t. in moscow.

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reminder than all the top stories this hour. the u.n. general assembly is discussing the situation in syria right now with some strong statements coming out of the east. chief says president assad has lost legitimacy sure shuls will be no mandate for syria intervention involve the u.n. security council. global political focus shifts to the east where they could rein in the afghan issues are discussed in beijing has got to be meets with the country's leaders. and increased cases of assaults on women in egypt's tahrir square reveal the plight of female protesters whose hopes for democratic change is fading. well to our washington studios now as promised capital it comes with lauren a step that is next. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in

washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday june sixth two thousand and twelve j.p. morgan's two billion dollar london whale trading losses can be blamed on inadequate risk management that's according to one of the bank's main regulators who we've heard from today on capitol hill that will no kidding but whose job is it to believe that it's the regulators so what does the relatively new comptroller of the currency say is the ready. strong effective supervision which is a theme that flows throughout my testimony and will mark my turn your as comptroller. will we know talk is cheap but wall street groups are not so we'll talk about how and why regulations are being enforced and which other dogs were fused to bark also accounting it's supposed to keep track of positions it's supposed to very literally account for but did the latest m.f. global trustee report show.